At the Blight residence, Dipper, Pacifica, Lilith, King, Marcy and Hooty stared at the ships with horror plastered on their faces.
"Oh my Titan!" Lilith exclaimed.
"Why did they do that?" Pacifica asked. "Why did they send the robot that was keeping the ships invisible to kidnap King?!"
"Maybe they wanted to be found." Dipper theorised. "They wanted a big reveal."
Hooty huffed. "What a bunch of show offs. Only a desperate fool would do that for attention. Right guys? Am I right? I better be right." But no one was paying attention to Hooty as they were ignoring him. "RIGHT?!"
King and Marcy were standing where they were, panting in fear. Marcy was having flashbacks to being The Core's vessel while King was flashing back to being tortured and having his blood extracted.
"They're gonna capture me!" King panted. "They're going to take me away again!"
"No! No! No!" Marcy began to pant in fear. "I can't let them take me!"
"Hooty, anxiety hug." Lilith commanded to Hooty.
Hooty quickly shot outwards and wrapped himself around Marcy and King, to help them calm down. But that didn't work as it caused them to panic more.
"Hooty, let them go." Dipper's command made Hooty let go of the kids and they just panted with fear. He walked towards them and got down on his knees to give them a soft look. "Kids, it's okay. We are going to make sure they won't hurt you."
"Besides, they might not be after you." Hooty said.
Suddenly, a screen from the biggest ship switched on to reveal The Core sitting on their throne. "Boiling Isles, congratulations, your land will not be destroyed or drained of your natural resources."
"Well that's nice." Hooty said.
"But they will be unless my demands are not met."
"Never mind."
"There is one thing I want and that is the last Titan." Everyone looked at each other in fear. "And no, I'm not referring to the corpse you reside on, I'm referring to the little dog you just assumed was a pet for Edalyn Clawthorne. The Owl Lady. If I do not get that Titan right away then your people and section of the town will be destroyed. Starting with Hexside."
The screen went off and everyone looked at each other with fear on their faces.'ing on the other hand was hugging on Lilith's leg, terrified for his life.
"They're gonna take my blood!" He cried. "What am I going to do?! The people might betray me! They'll exchange me for their lives so The Core will destroy countless worlds."
"King, even if they take you, they'll destroy Isles regardless." Marcy said.
"How do you know?" Pacifica asked.
"I've been in their head." Marcy replied. "I know how they work and what they fear."
"How do we stop them?" Lilith asked.
"The mother ship." Marcy replied. "They're in the mother ship. But the downside is, they will be heavily guarded. So, we're going to need a lot of fire power. I could check Alador's lab to see if he has anything that could help. I saw a ton of potions in there."
"Or maybe a plan to sneak in." Dipper said. "That ship does look similar to the one that attacked on Frogvasion."
"Lazy design choice." Pacifica remarked. "I thought that being was meant to be made out of the greatest minds in all of Amphibia so why is it using the exact same design it used on Frogvasion. Laziness like that is used for a trap."
Later, Marcy had drawn a drawing of the mothership on the ground with a stick. She used stuff such as a leaf, a stick, a toy owl, a pen, a hairbrush, an empty packet hex mix and a rock to represent each of them.
"Okay, I think I got everyone." Pacifica said. "But what's the rock for?"
"Oh, that rock wasn't there before." Marcy picked up the rock and tossed it up towards the mothership but it instead flew back to her, hitting her face. "Ow."
"Okay, so where's the entrance?" Dipper asked.
"It's around the back but it will be heavily guarded." Marcy explained while using the stick to point to the drawing. "So, we're going to need a distraction."
"And I know the one." Dipper said. "Okay, Hooty, Lilith…"
While Dipper explained the plan, King looked worried, which was noticed by Pacifica. "You okay, King?"
"Just scared for what The Core will do to me if they find me." King replied. "What do I do? I gotta check on Eda and see if she's okay."
"No." Marcy replied. "The Core will know you'd make that move. Sorry King, but Luz and Eda are going to have to handle it themselves."
King sighed sadly. "Well, they got it. I know they do. What's to be done with me?"
"Well, I'd say leave you with Ratticus." Dipper said while pointing to the Alador rat, eating some rat nibble. "But, that might be too much of a risk so…Unfortunately, you are going to have to come with us. But I promise you, we will keep you safe and make sure that mind won't get you."
King smiled at everyone. "Thanks. So, how are we going to distract them?"
Hooty coughed and grinned. "Leave that to me and LuLu." He tipped his head, revealing to be wearing a pair of black shades. "Hoot." He said in a deep voice.
"How did he put shades on his face?" The freaked out Pacifica asked the equally freaked out Marcy.
Inside the mothership, two of the robots were typing on some controls on a computer. That was until they began to hear something.
"La la la la la la la la la!"
"La la la la la la la."
The robots looked confused as they looked around. "What is that?"
"I think it's human music." Another robot responded.
"Look up the feed."
The robot opened up the screen to see Lilith, in harpy form, dressed in an Abraham Lincoln costume while holding sparklers and wearing shades while holding sparklers while carrying a Porta Hooty holding a boombox in his mouth.
"When you're feelin' sad and low. We will take you where you gotta go. Smilin', dancin', everything is free. All you need is positivity."
"What is that?" The robot asked.
"Spice Up Your Life by the Spice Girls." The robot replied. "It's kind of popular on Earth. Usually the United Kingdom region."
"I don't care what song it is, just attack them!" The robot commanded.
Outside, the door to the back entrance began to slowly open upwards like it were a garage door all while Lilith was dancing about.
"Hooty, I don't know about this." Lilith said. "I've never danced like this."
"Trust me LuLu, it's working." Hooty assured her. "They're going to be lead to a world of pain!"
"Slam it to the left! If you're havin' a good time! Shake it to the right! If ya know that you feel fine! Chicas to the front! Ha ha! Hai Si Ja! Hold tight!"
As the song played, a ton of robots began to fly out towards the two. Lilith tossed the sparklers away before flying toward the Knee while the robots followed. Hooty accidentally dropped the boombox just as the song continued to play while falling.
"Get them!"
"Execute them!"
"Destroy them!"
A hundred or so robots flew out of the back. Just as the door was about to close, the armoured Dipper carrying King, Marcy in her calamity form and Pacifica flying on Ratticus; Flew quickly through the closing door and landed quietly.
The room they were in looked to be some kind of empty docking bay where many of the robots were probably stationed. They saw a door written in ancient Amphibia language which Marcy quickly translated.
"Exit." Marcy said. "Come on guys."
They walked towards the door and tried to open it but it was locked. Dipper quickly de-armoured himself so he could retrieve his sonic tool which he used to unlock the door.
It revealed a long corridor where some of the robots were marching but thankfully not in their direction. They hid behind a wall so they wouldn't be spotted by those bots.
"Where are they heading?" Pacifica asked.
"Somewhere important." King theorised.
"Nah, they're probably patrolling for intruders." Marcy replied. "Or, maybe they're just marching to seem intimidating. Which was a practice they used often even when no one is around."
"You know, for a hive minded maniac, The Core has style." Dipper remarked.
"Okay, so what's the plan?" Pacifica asked.
"It's simple, we find The Core, free Alador and really make sure that helmet is destroyed before they possess another moon." Dipper said. "Like seriously, I don't want us repeating Amphibia again because last time one of us died."
"Yeah." Marcy said.
"So remember what I said." Dipper said. "We destroy the helmet as soon as possible."
"Right." Everyone said.
Dipper was about to walk out of the hiding spot until he returned. "I'm serious, because if one of us died because we didn't destroy the helmet then I'm going to be super upset."
"Okay! We get it!" Pacifica exclaimed quietly.
Suddenly, they heard the sound of dinging and a voice coming from the comms. "Ding dong, The Core here. So, I have to make the latest updates. Latest models have been donated by Odalia Blight who gave up her organs, bones and blood to power them up. And since there are people who are just now realising this, yes, my robots power sources were harvested from the bodies of witches and any other animals I could find." Dipper, Pacifica, King and Marcy stared at each other in horror over this revelation.
"Oh my god." Pacifica placed her hand on her mouth in horror.
"Oh my god is right, Anne."
"Wait, Anne?" Marcy asked.
"Oh I should have mentioned, I have Luz Noceda, Anne Boonchuy, the Owl Lady, the head of the Bard Coven, my vessel's daughter and some human nobody knows or cares about. But you know what's shocking? I don't have that Titan! That Titan! Where is the Titan?! I did everything to get his attention! I captured his best friend, I captured his mother and I even allowed Yohan to attack Hexside just to get his attention!"
"Yohan is dead." Dipper said. "How did he come back? Doesn't matter."
"Just if you're curious, I'm interrogating the six prisoners in my throne room and I just might start dissecting them if things get boring, The Collector is imprisoned in their jail cell and if anyone touches the power source you will be executed on the spot! That's it for the announcements for today. Remember, we don't destroy the Isles until we have extracted every last ounce of blood from the Titan's body!"
King froze in fear and held on to his chest. "I can't escape them! I can't."
"King, I assure you, we will make sure that monster will not get their hands on you." Dipper assured him as he noticed a computer and walked towards it. "Or should it be those monsters because Hive mind?" He placed a small device on the side of it while he used his sonic tool to hack into the mainframe. "Okay, according to the map…" He explained while everyone walked in front to see what Dipper was talking about. "….Wait, they have a map?"
"Well, the ship is big." Marcy said. "Someone is bound to get lost. Even a few bots."
"Huh, in hindsight, this is barley an inconvenience." Pacifica remarked.
"Yeah, super easy." Dipper agreed as he began pointing at the screen. "Okay, this is where the throne room is. If one of us can get through this vent and keep crawling then we might make it. But the jail cells are not far from here. They're just around the corner from where we are right now. While the reactor is 8 floors down. I don't think it will be safe of us to split up regarding what's going on."
"Guys, I think keeping me with you would be a big risk." King said. "I should just go on my own."
"King, no, that is out of the question." Dipper argued.
"Look Dipper, I can't have anyone die today." King protested. "After what happened with Luz, seeing someone die that isn't them will just make me distressed."
"King-"
"No." King protested. "I'll be safer in the vents trying to rescue the Collector. They can be freed with the help of the Titan and I have their genes. Please, Dipper."
Dipper looked like he wanted to argue but King did bring up a good point, if they were caught carrying him it would cause a bigger risk of being spotted.
"King, are you sure you don't want me to follow?" Marcy asked. "Or Pacifica?"
"Excuse me?!" Pacifica reacted.
"Or maybe Ratticus." Marcy said.
"No, I got The Collector." King assured them as he struggled to open the vent grate. But he couldn't because his paws were small and pathetic. "Uh, Dipper."
Dipper looked reluctant to split up with the Titan, but he decided to go with it because The Collector might help with taking out The Core. He used his sonic tool to remove the screws that were attached to the grates. Before the grate could call, Marcy caught it in her hand.
King entered the vent where he gave the four a salute. "Good luck guys. I'll be back in no time." Helen turned to the right and then returned a moment later.
"Oh, make a left turn on my perspective then make a right and after a while l take the third left and you will arrive at a floor grate." Dipper replied.
"See you on the other side." King said before running toward The Collector.
"And I'll rescue Anne and the others." Marcy replied.
"Marcy…"
"No Dipper, I won't argue."
"But Marcy…."
"Dipper, it's just a bit of a crawl." Marcy said before trying to enter the open vent. But what she didn't account for, was the size. Because she couldn't get through due to her body. "Okay, it's too big for me. Got any butter so I can squeeze through?"
"No." Dipper and Marcy replied.
"Wait, I've been in Alador's lab." Marcy replied. "And I've taken some stuff with me. There were some potions in there and I managed to take some." Marcy reached into her satchel to pull out some potions.
"Oh yeah, you mentioned those." Pacifica remarked.
"How will those help?" Dipper asked.
"Uh doy! One of them is a shrinking potion." Marcy replied. "Though I can't remember which one since he didn't label them." Ratticus watched on with caution since he knew what Marcy was about to pull out her satchel.
"If he didn't label them, how do you know there's a shrinking potion?" Dipper asked.
"I read his books." Marcy pulled out a vial of green bubbly liquid labelled acid and handed it to Dipper. "That's acid. I got a feeling you might need that later. Can't believe he had time to label that." Then she pulled out a vial of purple liquid and instantly drank it which had a terrible side effect. Her skin turned green. "Okay, not the result I wanted."
"Marcy maybe you should ask Ratticus before drinking anything else from there." Dipper suggested.
"Fair enough." Marcy responded. "These things are thankfully temporary since Alador didn't have the time to make them permanent." Marcy drank the next one which was a red potion which caused her green skin to be updated with scales like a reptile. "Okay, not my intention again."
"I did say ask Ratticus." Dipper reminded her.
"How many vials did you take?" Pacifica asked.
"All of them." Marcy replied. "I decided to wing it and take them all and get lucky." She then pulled out a purple potion and turned to the Palisman. "Ratticus, will this make me shrink." Ratticus made a squeaking noise. "Take that as a yes." Marcy drank the potion which caused her skin to revert back to its original colour and texture. "Hooray! I got my skin back." But it caused her to get slightly taller and her hair to grow a bit longer and her arms to get longer and her clothes even stretched a bit, not exactly fitting her.
Dipper and Pacifica backed away in surprise. "What happened?" Dipper asked.
Marcy examined her figure. "Hmm, judging by how I've grown not just by the legs but by my body, I've appeared to have aged around nine years."
"Can we find the right one?" Pacifica asked. "I feel as though some bots are gonna spot us any minute now!"
"Okay!" Marcy said. "Don't get your underwear in a twist!" Marcy pulled out a blue vial and pointed it to Ratticus. "Ratticus, will this potion make me shrink?" Ratticus nodded his head. "Okay, see?" Marcy drank the potion which caused her to shrink but only reverting herself back to her teenage self. "Oh darn! I was looking forward to being an adult." But what Marcy didn't take account for was the fact that she was actually shrinking right in front of Dipper and Pacifica. "Okay Ratticus, maybe I need to be a tad bit more specific with you. I should ask will this potion shrink me down to the size of, I don't know, the average cockroach…"
"Uh, Marcy." Dipper said.
"…which is 1.1–2.1 inches. Wait, do Boiling Isles have cockroaches?"
"Marcy, you're small!" Pacifica said.
"I know! I know! I'm still a teenager! Wait, if I do shrink, will I end up without any clothes on?" Marcy pondered as she shrunk down to the size of a cockroach with her clothes on and began to walk around. "Okay, Dipper, Pacifica, quickly make a costume out of napkins for me. Or something else just in case…" She looked up and raised a brow. "Hey, have you guys gotten big recently? Or have I gotten small?"
Dipper and Pacifica smiled at the successful size transition. "You're small."
"Small enough to ride Ratticus." Pacifica replied.
Marcy looked at her form and pumped the air. "Yes! I'm small! And thank goodness my worries about losing my outfit were for nothing because my clothes shrank too!"
"Okay Marcy, what will you do when you get to the throne room?" Dipper asked as he got down on his knees to be at eye level with Marcy.
"With a size advantage, I could rescue Anne by tampering with the machinery." Marcy replied. "And I gotta get there fast or otherwise this will wear off the more I jibber jabber." The girl jumped on the back of Ratticus and pulled on his fur like her were a horse. "Onward Ratticus!"
And with a little squeak, Marcy began riding on Ratticus through the vent and straight toward the throne room.
"Stay safe, Marcy!" Pacifica said.
Dipper quickly attached the grate back where it was positioned and used his sonic tool to screw the screws back into position.
"Okay, that should do it." Dipper said.
"Are you willing the blow the reactor up before we rescue everyone?" Pacifica asked.
"It's okay, I'm willing to blow the reactor after we rescue everyone." Dipper assured her. "I'm not that psychotic."
Dipper began to walk towards the reactor while his girlfriend followed, looking baffled. "What do you mean by that?"
Meanwhile, King was crawling through the vent. He had been crawling for three minutes and was already feeling a sense of claustrophobia.
There was a spark flash, causing him to make a 'Weh' noise. "I needed a better plan."
Suddenly, he felt a breeze and shivered. "Uh, this better not be a cooling vent." As he continued to crawl through the cold and chilling ventilation shaft. "Cant believe The Collector got themselves captured. Wait, how did he get captured? I thought it would be impossible with their powers. Only a Titan could bring this type of harm to him."
"Who's there?!" The voice of the Collector exclaimed. "Is someone here?!"
"Collector?!" King crawled a little bit faster to rescue his friend. "Where are you?"
"King?!"
"Yes, it's me!" Collector responded. "King, you gotta help me!"
"Where are you? I'm coming!" Suddenly, he was stopped by a shadow, startling him. "Weh?!"
"King!" The Collector's shadow cheered in the vent. "How did you know I was here?!"
"Never mind that, what happened?" King asked. "You look shadowy. Like you're trapped in your prison tablet."
"I am!" The Collector cried as they showed up behind King again. "I don't know how it happened!" He began to use his hands like shadow puppets to explain how they got captured. "So, I was just contemplating my existence, minding my own business. This happened after you, Luz and Amity left me to be myself. And then the next minute…" The shadow puppet of The Collector got hit by a bright light and was now in the disc shaped tablet. "The Core trapped me in the same tablet the Titan trapped me in and now I can't get out." The Collector made some shadow puppets of a robot, Yohan and The Core holding the tablet he was trapped in. "Turns out, they somehow got a hold of your blood which in turn trapped me here. And now, I've been in this prison for a million years! It's soooo boring, you gotta get me out, King!"
"Don't worry Collector, I'm on my way." King assured him. "Just hang tight. Could you lead me to where you're trapped?"
"Sure thing!" The Collector replied before motioning King to follow his shadow.
A short time later, King popped out of a floor grate and saw The Collector tablet being held by a podium like he was just an item on display.
"Apparently, they're gonna use me as a souvenir." The Collector said. "Don't know who they're showing off to since there will be no one."
"Don't worry Collector, we are gonna save the Isles." King assured them. "Once I get you out, you are going to use your powers to blow The Core sky high."
"Yeah!" The Collector cheered. "Straight into the sky and towards a galaxy 20,000 galaxies away from my own!"
King chuckled. "Sounds extremely OP." King looked up at the podium with a pondering look. "Huh, I should have had a step ladder." King toppled the podium, causing it to land with a crash and the tablet to roll toward the Baby Titan.
"Careful!" The Collector chided.
"You're not exactly breakable." King said. "Okay, let's get you out."
"Goodie!" The Collector cheered then they noticed something behind King. "King! Behind you!"
Then, King got grabbed by the neck by an invisible force. Then, while choking from the grasp of the force, began to float upwards. Then something turned his body around 180 degrees to face whoever caught him.
The cloaking device turned off to reveal itself as one of the Carnivore robots that everyone encountered in Amphibia. He had heard of them, but seeing them face-to-face made his blood shiver.
Then, General Yohan entered the prison and sharped his blades. "You monster! YOU MONSTER!" The Collector's shadow cried as they banged on the wall like a child having a tantrum.
"Don't worry, I'll bring you to the Core." Yohan assured them. "So you can see your best friend die a horrible death."
"NOOOOOOOOO!" The Collector cried. "NOT MY BEST FRIEND! Please, I lost one friend, I don't want to lose another."
"Friends?" Yohan asked. "What even is a friend? That concept does not exist in my programming."
The Collector stared at Yohan in fear, wondering what they will do to them and his best friend. If only there was some help.
Meanwhile, the miniaturised Marcy was busy riding Ratticus through the vent, trying to get to her friends and save them from her biggest nightmare.
"Onward Ratticus!" Marcy exclaimed. "By the way, why do you have an attachment to me?" Ratticus squeaked. "I'm just gonna assume you said my clumsy personality." Marcy accidentally fired a crossbow through one of the corridors.
The arrow through out of the small air grate and hit Yohan in his metallic ankle which didn't exactly do anything as he didn't exactly feel it.
As she rode, Marcy took a glance at her crossbow and quickly hid it so she didn't fire another a shot. "Okay, shouldn't have done that."
When they got to the end of the vent, Marcy managed to force her way through a small gap in the grate and used her strength to remove the bottom screws at the bottom so Ratticus could enter without making any noises.
"Good job, Ratticus." Marcy heard some voices and hid behind a giant piece of machinery. She and Ratticus poked their heads out to see what was going on.
They saw Anne, Luz, Camila, Eda, Raine and Amity trapped in some kind of forcefield together while Alador, now the vessel of The Core was talking.
They appeared to be laughing sinisterly over something and mocking them. Luz looked angry, Anne looked angry, Camila looked scared, Eda looked to be standing her ground, Raine looked to be pulling a deadpanned look while Amity looked saddened to see her father trapped in that armour.
Marcy looked angry while Ratticus looked saddened over something. "Something wrong Ratticus?"
The rat squeaked toward the direction of Alador and Marcy looked baffled for a moment. That was until she quickly put together what Ratticus looked sad about.
"Ooooh, Alador's your owner." Ratticus squeaked with confirmation. "Oh dear." She patted his head. "Don't worry, we're going to rescue him."
"Sir, we got prisoners incoming." She heard one of the robots say to their leader.
"Bring them in." The Core commanded.
Then, from the door, came Yohan holding King and The Collector in his hands. "We have more prisoners my Lord."
"King!" Marcy could hear Luz cry in distress.
Marcy pressed her hands on her mouth so she could suppress a scream she wanted to give but didn't because she was afraid she would be spotted and captured.
"Oh no!" Marcy said as quietly as she could. "Don't worry King and Collector, I'll get you out. Just gotta figure out how."
She began to analyse the energy shield they were trapped in. First, she had to figure out where the shield was being projected. It looked to be projected upwards so that is where it was coming from. "Okay, I'm definitely small enough to tamper with it. But how do I get up?" Ratticus patted Marcy on her shoulder with his giant hands and shifted to staff mode.
"Of course!" Marcy exclaimed. "Wait, don't I need to fly you? Or can't you just go autopilot?"
And so, while The Core explained to the heroes what their dastardly deed was, Marcy was in the background trying to pilot Ratticus. But due to how small she was and lack of Palisman flying training, she almost crashed a few times.
But thankfully, she made it to the power source. She was currently hanging on by one of the wires that was near the power source that was emitting the energy down toward the prisoners.
"Okay, just one shot of the crossbow…." Marcy, despite holding on for dear life managed to fit in the arrow for her crossbow. "…And everyone will be free. And I'll be as stealthy as a bug. As long as the shrinking potion doesn't wear off."
Suddenly, Marcy felt a growl coming from her stomach and she suddenly grew to her original size. She tried holding on to dear life on the energy emitter but she fell.
She screamed as she fell and landed on the floor on her back with a loud thud right in front of everyone.
"Marcy?!" Anne exclaimed in shock.
Marcy nervously chuckled. "Sorry for crashing in like that."
Meanwhile, a couple of robots were marching down the corridor patrolling the area for any sign of intruders, but so far, there weren't any intruders.
That was until they spotted somebody coming towards them and raised their arm cannons. A laser dagger hit one in the head while a few shots hit the other in the chest.
They were from Dipper and Pacifica respectively. "So much for stealth." Pacifica remarked.
"It was bound to be broken anyway." Dipper remarked.
"Okay, how far are we to the reactor room?" Pacifica asked before lasers flew past her and Dipper and quickly got to cover.
They looked at how many robots there were, which were about four. "Very close. The security seems to be amped up a bit."
"I take two you take two?" Pacifica asked.
"Sounds fair." Dipper replied. "On three."
"Three!" The robots continued firing their shots, interrupting the countdown.
Pacifica jumped out first and shot two of the robots in the head which caused the other two to be distracted so Dipper could slice them to pieces with his energy sword.
Pacifica and Dipper stared at each other, cheeks turning red with happiness and intense feelings for each other.
"Would it be hot for us to perform a passionate and hot kiss over their corpses?" Pacifica asked.
"It is hot." Dipper walked to his girlfriend and placed one hand around her waist while she wrapped her hand around his back. "But it would be hotter if there was explosion and we were standing with our shirts off revealing our shiny glistening bods like some awesome poster."
"Don't push it, Pines." Pacifica said. "This feels hot enough." She and him shared a passionate kiss with each other before pulling out and running to the reactor room.
When they arrived to the reactor room, they saw that it was being guarded by a ton of robots, robot dragonflies and a Carnivore.
The robots aimed blades, blasters, maces and shoulder cannons. One of the robots licked their blade while the Carnivore just stood in place sharpening the wrist blades.
Dipper and Pacifica were at first intimidated by their appearances but then just smiled. "You know how much I missed kicking ass with you?" Pacifica asked.
"A lot?"
"A lot."
Dipper handed his energy sword to Pacifica which she caught while he pulled out a spare sword. They activated their respective weapons and aimed them right at the bots.
"You had a spare?!"
"Wanted to dual wield." Dipper replied. "But I guess my ambidexterity has its limitations."
"Okay, let's kick some robotic ass!" She exclaimed.
Then, the couple began charging towards the bots while the bots did the exact same thing. The dragonflies dived down like bombs which Dipper and Pacifica sliced instantly.
Three robots were decapitated with one clean sweep from Pacifica before she stabbed another in the chest before sliding her weapon upwards.
Dipper had his blaster in his hand and used it to shoot a couple of the frog robots in the throat and eye. He dropped down on the floor to shoot a dragonfly that was about to dive into him, causing a huge explosion.
Pacifica did a front roll before shooting a couple more and slicing another by the waist. She then cut off another's wrist, causing oil to squirt all over her face and the robot's.
Dipper shot a dragonfly that was coming for Pacifica and then chopped the wings off of another dragonfly, causing them to crash into the wall and blow up.
Pacifica and Dipper stood back-to-back against one another while shooting the remaining soldiers that were trying to take them down. Dipper managed to rack up 8 kills while Pacifica got 9. Soon there were no soldiers left, except for one.
A carnivore stood in front of the couple sharpening its blades and powering its shoulder cannon. Dipper narrowed his eyes at the robot and sighed. He pushed the power source on his chest which made the nano bots cover his body into his armour.
He raised his right arm to fire a mini missile straight to the robot's chest, causing them some confusion before they blew up.
Pacifica stared at her boyfriend in shock while Dipper gave his girlfriend a deadpan look under the mask. "Was that a carnivore?"
"Yup." Pacifica replied.
"It was pretty easy to take out." Dipper said.
"I had bruises everywhere on my body." Pacifica pointed out.
Dipper deactivated his armour. "Well, as long as it isn't Yohan, we'll be safe."
They began walking to the reactor while someone was above them, hanging on a pipe with only one arm. Yohan flashed his eyes as he began to slowly lower himself down.
Dipper reached into his pocket and pulled out a makeshift bomb and placed it on the reactor. "Okay, bomb is set." Dipper declared.
"So, we escape?" Pacifica asked.
"We make sure the others have done their part before blowing this ship apart." Dipper said. "Right now, we need to deal with one more problem."
Dipper in an instant, quickly turned around to shoot Yohan, whom was sneaking up on the couple. The newt dodged the blasts and used his tail to disarm Dipper and to hit Pacifica in the face.
Dipper looked to his girlfriend with concern before narrowing his eyes at Yohan while activating his sword.
"Hello Dipper." Yohan aimed his wrist blades at the author. "It appears that our rematch has begun." Dipper cracked his neck and stroked his chest, as he was ready to activate his body armour to beat Yohan. "Tell me, did you miss me?" He stared at his hand with confusion. "Hang on, didn't I chop that off?"
"Weren't you dead?" Dipper retorted.
"Harsh." Yohan remarked. "But, thankfully my conscious was transferred to a more robotic upgrade. No flesh, no pain and no way for you to kill me."
"That may be so, but I killed you once, I can do it again." Dipper said.
"Don't be so certain." Yohan looked to Dipper's chest and saw that he was close to pushing the reactor stuck on it. "Oh no you don't." He used his tail to remove the device from his chest, causing it to fly towards the unconscious Pacifica.
Yohan charged towards Dipper where the two began the long awaited rematch. They deflected their respective weapons against one another. The author tried decapitating Yohan with a powerful swipe, but the cyborg just ducked so he could try and stab Dipper in the ankles.
The human jumped until he got hit in the chest with the newt's tail, midair and crashed into the reactor. "Careful!"
"Oh that would be so funny if you ended up destroying your boss' ship." Dipper laughed.
"Oh you asked it for it, human." Yohan tried to light Dipper ablaze with his flamethrower, but he quickly dodged it and sliced the weapon off the of the newt's wrist.
Dipper however, did have his shirt catch fire which he quickly tossed it toward Yohan. The newt General just sliced it before it could hit him.
Then, Dipper managed to punch Yohan in his face with his robotic hand, causing the robot to stumble a bit.
Yohan, despite having no flesh or cheekbones, did emit a look that suggested he was smiling. "I see. Your hand is powerful enough to make me stumble. Impressive."
"Just some parts I was able to salvage from Frogvasion and have been designing new gadgets ever since." Dipper explained. "Like this robot hand."
"That's it?" Yohan asked. "There's barely a dent on me." He charged towards Dipper and tried to slice him, until he grabbed his wrist and began to crush it which caused the robot some alarm.
"No dent, huh?" Dipper retorted before punching him with his hand, sending him flying back.
Yohan looked at how messed up his wrist looked and growled. He tried stabbing Dipper with his tail, until Dipper quickly sliced the tip off.
Then, he and Yohan engaged in other duel where they deflected their respective hits against on another. Dipper stabbed Yohan in the shoulder, causing him to stumble a bit till the cybernetic newt kicked Dipper in his stomach which only made him take one step back.
The author and cyborg engaged a ton of hits against each other that only got faster and faster like Yohan was doing everything he could to tire out Dipper which didn't work out well.
As they clashed their respective weapons against each other, Pacifica managed to wake up to see her boyfriend managing to hold his own against the robo newt.
As the two clashed their respective weapons against one another, Yohan split one of his arms into another pair and activated a blade that Pacifica noticed.
"Dipper!" Pacifica cried.
But it was too late, because Yohan used his extra arm to stab Dipper in the gut. The author felt the sharp pain in his abdomen and looked down. It looked like a moderately deep stab wound. It was pretty serious if he removed the blade from his stomach. So Dipper sliced the blade off of the arm and collapsed on his rear.
The blade was deep in his gut and some blood was oozing out. It was bad but he knew moving or removing the blade would only make it worse.
Yohan walked up towards his victim and got down on his knees and began to stare at his arch nemesis. "You know, I didn't think you'd put a good fight. But you did. I'm proud of you. Shame I didn't get to fight you in that armour of yours. It would have been a bit of a challenge. I would have been impressed at how gutsy your efforts to defeat were. Speaking of gutsy, have ever wondered what your guts looked like?" He grabbed the blade that was lodged in Dipper's stomach and was about to twist it and move it to the left so his guts could spill out.
Dipper could only watch on helplessly and prayed that Pacifica would wake up and rescue him.
The bot was close, until someone tossed a screw to the back of their head. "Hey! Yohan!"
Yohan sighed. "Of course, you're alive." He turned to face Pacifica, whom was standing there with her fists clenched and her eyes narrowed.
"You should have stayed dead." Pacifica said.
"Like The Core, stubbornness is how we survive." Yohan said.
"And stubbornness is what's going to kill you." Pacifica retorted.
"And how will you beat me?" Yohan asked mockingly. "Your weapons are useless against me and you're just a scrawny human."
Pacifica narrowed her eyes at the robot and exhaled. She grabbed the hem of her shirt with both of her hands and took it off, revealing her abs to him.
Yohan just stared at her with a baffled head turn. "You gained muscle. So what? Your boyfriend's were very penetrable."
Pacifica grinned. "Those six aren't the surprise." She tossed her shirt in the direction of Yohan and quickly pulled the reactor from her pocket and slammed it on her chest. Yohan sliced the black top with one swift slice.
Pacifica pushed on the arc reactor, causing the nanobots to crawl over her body so she could be fully armoured up and ready to kick some robo butt.
She cringed and shivered. "Ewww! The nanobots feel weird!"
"Yeah, you get used to them after a while." Dipper said.
Pacifica began to admire the armour she was wearing while Yohan stared at her with alarm. "Wow. But this armour is pretty nifty. Now that I am looking at it. Wait, how did it get to my size?"
"Oh, the nanobots are programmed to fit the size of whoever places the device on the chest." Dipper explained.
"I don't care about the ins and outs!" Yohan charged toward Pacifica who responded with a punch to Yohan's face, causing him to fly backwards.
Pacifica looked impressed with landing the first hit. She was so impressed that she began jumping about and began punching the air. "That's right! This scrawny human landed the first punch!" Suddenly, the wrist missile activated and shot out, hitting the wall and causing a huge hole to appear.
Pacifica panicked. "Uh…Dipper, how do I control the suits weapons?"
"Trial and error." Dipper replied.
"Well that's assuring." Pacifica sarcastically retorted.
Yohan shot back up with a growl and tried to tackle Pacifica. That was until, she accidentally activated the thrusters and began to hover upwards. But she went up a little too high because she hit her head on the ceiling and crashed back on the floor.
"By the way the flying is difficult." Dipper said.
"Babe, I know you're bleeding out but I really wanna punch you right now!" Pacifica exclaimed before she got picked up by Yohan by the throat and he began to punch her in the face repeatedly.
Unfortunately for him, the mask didn't have a dent on it but Pacifica still felt like she was being punched by a professional boxer with rocks in their gloves so it was causing some nosebleed and bruises under the mask.
She punched him back, causing him to slid backwards on the floor.
He shot back up and charged towards Pacifica. There, they began to trade punches against each other.
Yohan at one point, tried using his tail to trip her up, but she quickly jumped in the air and kicked Yohan in the head and continued her fight with the robot.
Pacifica blocked and parried Yohan's hits while the robot did the exact same thing as her. Yohan tried stabbing Pacifica in the gut but the blade completely dented when it made impact.
Yohan growled in anger before being hit with a barrage of punches from Pacifica. Every punch she made caused dents to his armour. Stomach, chest, shoulder and face before slamming him to the ground.
Pacifica turned his body to his back and began to punch him in his face repeatedly. "Time for you to die, this time!"
Yohan laughed in-between punches which made Pacifica stop as she stared at him with confusion. "What's so funny?"
"You were so focused on killing me that you didn't notice the fact I had my hand on your power source." Yohan tore the reactor from her chest with another replicated hand, causing Pacifica to lose her armour.
Pacifica froze and looked at her exposed skin. She groaned in annoyance before she got hit in her rock hard gut by Yohan, causing her to fly backwards and to crash into the wall.
Dipper wanted to scream in pain but all he could do was groan in pain due to the blade in his gut while Yohan tossed away the power source.
Yohan slowly walked towards the struggling Pacifica with murderous intent. She was about to get up until Yohan grabbed her by the throat, raised her high before slamming on the floor.
Yohan laughed sinisterly as he placed a blade on her abdomen and pondered what to do. "So tell me, how would you want your guts to be disemboweled? Lengthways?" He began to cut her stomach lengthways, causing her to scream in pain while Dipper could only watch on helplessly. "Or widthways?" He then cut her stomach in a widthways motion.
Now her stomach had a cross shaped scratch that was probably gonna heal but it was going to stay for a while.
Pacifica panicked because she was now helpless against Yohan. Without armour and without Dipper to help out, her death was inevitable.
Dipper how had to check his pocket for any tech that could help. He had to save his girlfriend because he just got her back and he didn't want to lose her again. Thankfully, he found something that could help.
Yohan stared down at Pacifica with his blade activated. "You know, I was going to save you for last. But now, I wanna give Dipper some pain. Seeing his girlfriend die before he dies. How painful would that be? By the way, have you ever wondered what your guts looked like?"
"Hey Yohan, have you ever wondered what melting felt like?"
Yohan turned to face Dipper when he was hit in the face by a vial of green liquid. In that moment, Pacifica quickly got out of his grasp and ran to her heavily wounded boyfriend as they watched Yohan being devoured and dissolved by acid.
Yohan's face dripped away revealing his newt-like skeleton that also dissolved and devoured away into boiling hot Liquid Metal. Then, his entire body melted away into nothing but Liquid Metal.
Pacifica looked to his dissolved body fearing that he could be alive. "Is he…."
"Dead." Dipper tried to stand up but he screamed due to the blade in his gut.
"Dipper!" Pacifica ran to her boyfriend and got to her knees to check on him. "Dipper! Dipper!" She pressed her hand close to his wound to stop most of the bleeding.
"Don't worry Pacifica." Dipper groaned. "I just need to get out of here and patch this wound up." Pacifica was about to remove the blade. "No, don't remove it. That will make it worse."
Pacifica looked worried because she was exhausted from kicking Yohan and being beaten up by him. Some tears fell from her eyes as she held his arm. "You look exhausted. And I'm exhausted." She began to sob. "I don't want to lose you Dipper, I just got you back!"
Dipper stared at Pacifica with a tired look on his face. "I just got you back too. Don't worry, I'm not going to die. The others will be out soon."
"How?" Pacifica asked.
"I might have placed a small hacking device on a computer that will hack a huge fraction of The Core's technology. Hopefully it will free the others."
"But what if The Core beats them?" She asked. "We beat Yohan with barley an inch of our lives. How can they stop them?"
"They won't."
They turned to see General Yohan apparently alive after being dissolved. "Oh you have got to be shitting me." Pacifica groaned.
Yohan walked to the dissolved body of his predecessor. Or what was left of him and just shrugged it off. "You think I was going to risk my life with the other Yohan?"
"What?" Dipper reacted in shock.
"My consciousness wasn't just transferred into one body, but a ton." Yohan explained. "One is in the throne room fighting Luz and the others and the other is just about to be prepared to take another's place at Hexside. Now, since you're all exhausted and can't put up a good fight…" He noticed the mark on Pacifica's stomach and the blade in Dipper's gut and laughed. "Well, least some things will be easy."
He was about to grab the blade that was jammed in Dipper, until his arm was blown up by a powerful fire spell.
"Aaaaahhhh!" Yohan screamed in shock.
Dipper and Pacifica were confused until they saw none other than what looked like Luz, now in her Titan form staring down at Yohan.
"It can't be!" Yohan said.
Luz spun Stringbean in her hands and did a pose. "It can be." She drew a spell circle that and forced it towards Yohan, causing him to get dents all along his body before being fully crushed.
Dipper and Pacifica stared at Luz with wide eyed shock over this. Dipper knew that this was Luz in her Titan form which was odd because the Titan passed on.
While Pacifica was so confused and baffled that her eye began to twitch. "So Paz, what do you think?" Luz asked.
Pacifica analysed Luz a bit before inhaling through her nose. "WHAT THE FU-"